explainer-animation

explainer-animation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexagriffith/agent-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-writing guide for making structured explainer animations in Claude Design, a visual design workspace. It defines the lesson structure, layout, movement, timing, and on-screen wording while following an existing design system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review prompts for explainer videos and animated concepts. It can address teaching content, layout, pacing, interaction, and on-screen text.
Why use it?
It turns a vague animation idea into a prompt with clear teaching steps and timing. It also prevents the prompt from inventing visual styling that should come from the loaded design system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or review prompts for explainer videos and animated concepts. It can address teaching content, layout, pacing, interaction, and on-screen text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexagriffith/agent-skills/explainer-animation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexagriffith/agent-skills --skill explainer-animation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexagriffith/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00085

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1897a7203a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explainer-animation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/explainer-animation/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explainer Animation Prompt Generator

Produces a paste-ready prompt for Claude Design (or a similar design canvas).

Always follow the style tokens already loaded in the design project.
The prompt owns structure, layout, boxes, motion, and text. Never invent a palette, never name a design-system project, never specify colors, fonts, or CSS.

Load only what you need

Task Read
Write a new prompt this file → references/principles.mdlayout.mdpacing.mdtext.mdprompt-template.md
Fix teaching / empty lesson / vague headers references/principles.md + references/text.md
Fix layout / overlaps / arrows / fills references/layout.md
Fix timing / reveals / interaction references/pacing.md
Fix on-screen wording references/text.md
Review before paste references/review.md + references/principles.md (+ the prompt file)

Do not load every reference for a one-line fix.

Absolute: never style

Forbidden in the prompt: color names, hex codes, palettes, fonts, backgrounds, borders, shadows, CSS, or a named design-system / template.

Required instead: match the reference file’s export contract; use the design system already in this project for colors, fonts, and components.

Layout geometry (bands, gaps, box sizing from labels) is formatting — keep it.

Process

  1. Have an idea — a claim worth teaching (doc, paste, or verbal). Pull claim + stakes before any geometry (references/principles.md).
  2. Invoke this skill — it writes a paste-ready Claude Design prompt (structure, layout, motion, on-screen text only — never colors or fonts).
  3. Paste into Claude Design — project already has your design system / template. Always create a NEW canvas file. Match the reference file’s export contract. Do not export until you say it looks good.
  4. Iterate on the live render — hope for something that works in under five passes. Not a guarantee. Batch fixes; scrub transitions; keep the tab focused on export.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 82 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 1897a7203a9e

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explainer-animation is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexagriffith/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 846 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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